Donald Trump Quotes

I'm certainly very conservative when it comes to education. We're getting rid of Common Core. We're going to have education at a local level.

I am going to provide school choice and put an end to common core and bring our education local.

I don't want Washington - let me be perfectly clear - I do not want Washington involved in local education decisions any more than I want them involved in common core. You know, common core was a state-created and state-implemented voluntary set of standards in Math and English that are comparable across state lines.

Common Core is a big win for education.

I want to get rid of Common Core.

There is no question we need higher academic standards and at the local level the rigor of the Common Core state standards must be the new minimum in classrooms.

States are free to modify the Common Core State Standards or adopt their own individual standards, because academic standards are the prerogative of the states.

The Washington-knows-best approach has repeatedly failed the very children it proposes to help. It's time to roll back Common Core and return education to the people who it matters most to - children, parents, and teachers.

Parents and teachers alike are alarmed by this top-down approach to education that wrongly ties education money for states to the adoption of academic standards that do not fully reflect the values of South Carolina.

Education is largely run at the state level.

When it comes to education, no solution, not even ones we like, should be dictated or run from Washington, D.C.

I think charter schools, choice, and frankly school standards need a champion.

We do need curriculum reform. And it should happen at the state and local level. That is where educational policy belongs, because if a parent is unhappy with what their child is being taught in school, they can go to that local school board or their state legislature, or their governor and get it changed.

Common Core has been eliminated in New Jersey.

I believe in local control of education.

There is a growing acceptance and interest in publicly funded school choice as a catalyst for education reform in general and a way to empower parents to be education reformers.

Any nation wishing to promote national education could not expect to achieve its aims until it took it control of education in its own hands

Children, although for the most part under the unwritten discipline of home, are not to be regarded as outside the control of public regulation. For the education of children is a matter of more than private interest; it concerns the State, which indeed regards the right training of the young as, in certain aspects, within its proper sphere. I would wish to see this responsibility extended.

Louisiana standards and Louisiana tests for Louisiana students.

Federal and State mandates don’t do anything for local schools other than to protect failure.

The [teachers’] unions and the [school] districts have very different stakes in local control. The districts want the money and the programs that higher level governments can provide, but they also want autonomy in determining how resources are allocated. The unions are much less wedded to local autonomy. Indeed, much of their lobbying at the state level is to limit the autonomy of the districts.

One thing I cannot understand - and people are probably going to be upset about this - is why local school boards have control over educational content.

Classrooms cannot and should not be coerced into adopting federal academic standards. That's not just my belief; it's federal law.

Beginning with the No Child Left Behind law and continuing today with Race to the Top, the federal emphasis on standardized assessments has become so excessive that it has modified state and district behavior in troubling ways.

Federal government has forced a one-size-fits-all model on our education system.